Re: [whatwg/url] authority state limits passwords outside of percent encoding (#294) from Anne van Kesteren on 2017-04-19 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from April 2017)

From: Anne van Kesteren <notifications@github.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 10:34:15 -0700
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Well, per the URL Standard you shouldn't be producing such URLs anyway as URLs leak and therefore usernames and passwords would too, so that concern is not super important. Besides, no client parses URLs the way you seem to want so we can't change this anyway.

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